I need advice from the pheasant hunters on TradGang!

[Guru]

Mike, Your set-up sounds perfect to me if you can't use FP or BH's....should make the arrows easier to find than not using any kind of flu-flu at all....have fun buddy, it's a blast!!

[reddogge]

The dogs can retrieve the birds and then ring their necks.

Man, I thought my old lab was good but he couldn't learn to wring the birds' necks.    

Seriously,  if a dog is involved leave the broadheads and sharp points home.   No pheasant in the world is worth a dead, blinded or wounded dog.  And the dog's owner just may shoot you.

[bripete]

Have hunted pheasants many times w/o broadheads, field points with zwickey scorpions work, ace classic bodkin point style heads work, have used bowfishing points and also have used razorhead broadheads minus the blades just the ferrule. Kustom king sells a game nabber field point which works as well , no snaro's, hex or rubber they bounce off, sometimes the small judo's bounce off as well. I also have used those turkey heads and they bounce off. Bottom line you need the arrow point in the bird he will go down and if you have a dog you will retrieve.

[wildgame]

ive got three with my recurve using flu flus and the hammer small game head from 3rivers!

[bowzonly]

sgh (small game head) from G5.  Devastating on pheasant. I have been bowhunting pheasant for 11 years and have taken a couple dozen or more in the air and I have been witness to many more taken by other hunters.  These heads are the best, and they are safe for dogs.  Pricey, yes, but with flu flus you wont lose them.

[Chuck Hoopes]

Long sharp BH,s is the only way to go, in my exp. As others have said, those birds are tough, feathers are harder to pentrate than hide. Most shots at pheasants are going away or nearly so kind of shots--if the bird is moving away at 30mph and your bow throws an arrow at 100mph, it makes your 60# bow hit w/ the force of a 40#lb bow.  I think this effect is magnified w/ flu flus, unless you get on them quick and nail them as they rise. If a bird flushes 10yds in front of you, by the time you get your bow up  and release and arrow that birds out about 25-30 yards and that flu flu just ain't gonna get it when it finally catches up to the bird.   Ive hit alot of pheasants with alot of diff. kinds of pts.(not the snaro though-  which looks laughable to me) and I can't imagine anything other than a sharp BH. The fear of BH hurting dogs is mostly an unfounded fear.  My beagles have been grabbing hold rabbits w. BH's in them for years (at least 100 times)--never had one injured. Can happen of course, but not all that likely-- and the result is apt to be nothing more than a small cut in the dogs mouth, unless you got one 'em dogs that trys to eat the bird!

Thanks for all the input guys! BH's are out of the question as per the owner of the dogs. I'll have to try the field point or G5 small game head. Anyway, as long as I get a few shots (even if I never hit one) I think I will have a blast. If I do bag one it will be hanging in my living room for sure.

Bisch

[americanhunter7]

Bisch,
I will say that the G5 heads on birds with flu flu's are great. They also work wonders on tree rats and bunny ratchets as well. Good luck and post some pics of those tasty pheasants when you are able too.